This is my first real Jeep Project.
When I got the jeep the previous owner had installed a 3inch Suspension lift with 2inch spacers on the front and 2 inch Lift Shackles on the rear, sitting on 31inch tires.
He provided me with a picture of the vehicle stock, before the lift.
Everything else was stock, including the broken Sway Bar links.
It had a death wobble from hell, which I found out the hard way on the highway coming home after buying it.
Once we hit 40 mph and a bump, it shock extremely violently until it came to a complete stop.
The experience was like an 8.7 on the Richter Scale, inside a giant paint shaker, while trying to steer.
Any of you that have experienced an actual legit full fledged Death Wobble in all it's glory know what I'm talking about.
And I still had a 2 hour drive home from the sellers house...
So it was at this point that I decided to strip it down and start from scratch in regards to the steering and suspension components.

How it sat when purchased

Phase: 1

We worked on it slowly, a little bit each day.
I don't have a shop, so we worked in my driveway, weather permitting.
We diagnosed many of the causes to the "Death Wobble" symptoms through trial and error.
One of the by-products of lifting a Jeep Cherokee 5 inch with no modifications or upgrades to the stock steering or suspension.
We would be removing the present lift in favor of a long arm lift kit.
I also started prepping for some of the exterior mods we would be putting on as well.

Front/Rear Bumper Removal

Parts List

I started ordering parts, and one by one they began collecting on my front porch.
Once my porch was full, parts began collecting inside.
We were living in a Jeep Parts Shop, and kind of interesting.
Here is my part's list bellow

Suspension:

RC 4.5 inch Long Arm Lift Kit:

Lifted high flex coil springs

Long arm Crossmember

Adjustable upper control arms

Adjustable lower control arms

Transfer case skid plate

Sway-bar quick disconnects

Adjustable track bar

Pitman arm

Stainless steel braided brake lines

Full Leaf Spring Packs

Performance 2.2 Series Shocks)

Rear Leaf Spring Shackles

Steering:

New bearings,

Moog upper and lower ball joints.

Currie Currectlync Heavy Duty Tie Rod and Drag Link.

Steering Box Brace.

Upgraded Heavy Duty 2.2 Steering Stabilizer.

Brakes:

New Rotors, Calipers and pads in front.

Drums and shoes in rear

Tune Up:

Air Filter

Champion Copper Plugs, and wires.

Oil change Mobile 1

Change transmission fluid

Coolant flush and fill

New Thermostat

Drive Train:

Slip Yolk Eliminator

Custom Tom Woods Rear Driveshaft

Exterior:

ARB Deluxe Bull Bar Front Bumper

Warn 8000 Winch

2 IPF Spot Lights

JCR HD Rear Bumper/Tire Carrier

AJ's Super Rails Rock Slider

Roof Slider

JCR Gas Tank Skid Plate

Bushwacker Flat Fender Flares

Lower Rear Quarter plated on both sides

Underneath re-coated

Wheels:

5 Cragar Soft 8 rims

5 Goodyear Wrangler Duratrac 33x12.5 inch tires

Gorilla Chrome Lug and Lock set

Exhaust:

Custom exhaust from the headers back

Flowmaster Super 44 Muffler.

Miscellaneous:

Fixed wiring on driver side door, passengers can now control power windows again.

Fixed Rear Wiper.

New Windshield Wipers

Parts:

Phase: 1 Complete

Everything installed and tested.
After a little tinkering it road great.
Great articulation, good clearance, and no vibration at all.
The only thing steering/Suspension related that is still OEM in the vehicle is the actual sway bar itself, everything else was removed and upgraded.
The roof sliders had a bend to it, so we flipped them in the meantime until we straighten them out.
They are actually supposed to come down just above the door to protect the sides.
We had help from a shop installing the Lift and some of the equipment because we simply ran out of time.
The weather was upon us and we were working out of my driveway. So we put the project on hold and finished it in the spring.

Installed LED spot lights in the JCR Rear Bumper, wired to my reverse lights.
Stock reverse lights were too obstructed by the JCR Rear Bumper to be of much use.
Decent lighting upgrade with major improvement for night visibility while backing up.

I picked this rook rack up second hand from a guy parting out his build.
Solid construction, simple rugged setup.
Strictly for side protection purposes as a roof slider setup, obviously not intended for sufficient cargo use.

The roof sliders look upside down to me...Would they fit flipped over?

Good eye. Yes the sliders were originally intended to be flipped, but
due to a bend in the sliders themselves the curve went opposite of the bodyline/roof.
Aesthetically speaking, it looked bad.
So until I could get them bent the proper direction we simply flipped them temporarily, and ended up liking the look of it so I kept it.

Looks like a quality build. How do you like the Rough Country long arms? I decided to stick with short arm on a 4" lift, but went with OME springs and shocks.

Personally I like the long arm set up much better than the short arm.
Better articulation and an all around better ride in my opinion.
Plus added protection underneath is a plus.
All in all I like the Rough Country Long Arm Lift Kit.
The arms, coils and leaf packs are good.

However I have already replaced the quick disconnect sway bar links and will be replacing the shocks with a more rugged alternative.
The quick discos failed multiple times with light use and broke on me fairly early. And the shock bushings are bad after a year of use.

You had some body work done. Did you do that yourself? I'm referring to the second to last photo in post #1.

In the photo where you took the rear factory bumper off, I saw rust on the rear quarter panel, and also, you'd have had to drill out the rivets holding on the bumper cover brace.

It looks like a clean repair, and good color match on the paint.

We did have some body work done just on the lower rear quarter panels behind the rear bumper's plastic end caps.
I don't have a lot of experience with bodywork, so we had a guy that knew what he was doing help us out and do it right. Used thicker steal, so now it is armor plated on the lower rear quarters.